Tableau: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations

Creating a workbook data extract

If your data is coming from some connected data sources, extracting such data from a workbook will let you work on that data even if you are disconnected. The extracts are also useful when dealing with large data files as you can apply filters to select only a few rows (based on conditions).

Getting ready

Let's use the sample file Sample – Coffee Chain (Access). Open a new worksheet and select Sample – Coffee Chain (Access) as the data source.

How to do it...

Once the data is loaded on the worksheet, perform the following steps to extract the data:

1. From the main menu toolbar, select Data.
2. Under Data, expand Sample - Coffee Chain (Access), and select Extract Data as shown in the following screenshot:
3. To select all rows, ...